Fishing Report 6-13-05

A referral from a bull trout trip earlier in the season led to my second trip out on Paulina in as many weeks. We meet at the ramp at 4:30 to hit it early for browns. We caught around half a dozen up to 2 lb. working in front of the resort and the area around the black slide. With some low cloud cover we were able to hang in there until around 8:30 when the sun started to poke through.

We decide to switch gears and pursue some kokanee for the remainder of the morning. The hot setup was the Shasta Tackle Slingblade in nickel/red with the Pro-Troll kokanee Killer in watermelon. The other rod ran a small Goldstar flasher in Watermelon with a copcar kokanee killer. Between the two anglers, 8 kokes were landed with at least that many lost. The clients had a little trouble at first getting used to the tender mouthed salmon but soon got the hang of it. The fish were caught at 18 to 38 feet and the water temp on top is still fairly low for this time of the year at 45-46. The long protracted damp spring has kept the lake a little behind schedule this year so far.

The evening gig produced 8 more browns to around 2.5 lb. with a hot bite between 7:30 and 8:30. We were ripping minnow imitation plugs 200 to 300 feet back on top.

Screamin' Drags, Rick